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Figure 59-2: Effects of Charging Scheme in Priula
Waste (kg/inh/yr)
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Source: Consorzio Priula
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Similar recycling rates can be observed in the area around Udine, in Italy, where food
waste collections were introduced in 2008. Recycling rates in the area were
averaging just under 80% in 2008 (see Figure 59-3). These examples are interesting
precisely because they are recent examples from a nation which has not been widely
viewed as a ‘high recycling nation’. They indicate that through novel adaptations of
existing ideas, notably the intensively targeted collection of food waste, very high
recycling rates can be achieved when such systems are implemented alongside pay
by use.
Rates can be similarly high in other countries. The County of Schweinfurt in Germany
achieves high recycling rates again through a combination of pay-by-use, and
collection systems which are convenient and of broad scope. Figure 59-4 shows how,
following the revision of the pay-by-use scheme in 1998/99, the recycling rate
increased significantly to 76%, with residual waste falling to 92 kg per inhabitant.